The Good Friday Murder

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Summary: I found out about this particular mystery quite by accident.
Review: It is a very entertaining read, and held my interest throughout the story. I thought that the twins, James and Robert, were particularly moving characters. I also found it interesting to see how some of the other characters reacted when they were found to be lying about incidents.

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Summary: NOT A RUN-OF-THE-MILL MYSTERY!!
Review: This is the first Christine Bennett mystery I read....as soon as I closed the last page, I went to my local bookstore and bought the complete series!! Christine spent half her life in a convent, and upon deciding that she was not cut out to be a nun, moved to her recently deceased Aunt's home in New York state.... While at a local town meeting in her town of Oakwood, she volunteered to investigate a murder by mentally challenged savard twins who were convicted of murdering their mother 50 years ago on Good Friday....the town members were afraid to allow Greenwillow Institution permission to relocate in Oakwood. Christine visited her own mentally challenged cousin, Gene, many times and got to know the savard twins. With the help of Jack Brooks, a local policeman, Christine solves this first of many mysteries.....at the same time they are realizing they each have feelings for the other....(this is only the beginning of a great relationship.......) This mystery, as well as those that follow, is a great read with original plot and superb character development....so many series seem to fizzle out after a few reads, but this one only gets better and better!! Any mystery that keeps me guessing right up to the end is a "5" in my book!!

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Summary: NOT A RUN-OF-THE-MILL MYSTERY!!
Review: This is the first Christine Bennett mystery I read....as soon as I closed the last page, I went to my local bookstore and bought the complete series!! Christine spent half her life in a convent, and upon deciding that she was not cut out to be a nun, moved to her recently deceased Aunt's home in New York state.... While at a local town meeting in her town of Oakwood, she volunteered to investigate a murder by mentally challenged savard twins who were convicted of murdering their mother 50 years ago on Good Friday....the town members were afraid to allow Greenwillow Institution permission to relocate in Oakwood. Christine visited her own mentally challenged cousin, Gene, many times and got to know the savard twins. With the help of Jack Brooks, a local policeman, Christine solves this first of many mysteries.....at the same time they are realizing they each have feelings for the other....(this is only the beginning of a great relationship.......) This mystery, as well as those that follow, is a great read with original plot and superb character development....so many series seem to fizzle out after a few reads, but this one only gets better and better!! Any mystery that keeps me guessing right up to the end is a "5" in my book!!

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Summary: Kix is my type of PI.
Review: This was the first Christine Bennett mystery I read. It was so good I recomended it to my family. I was in my fifties then but the book was rated as superb by my daughters in their twenties and by my husband. From then on I've read all Ms Harris' books. She's fabulous. Maybe you could say they're cozies but I don't think so. She has a deep sense of plot and characterization. Kix is a real person, the men and women involved in her investigations are psychologically correct. To make things short, I love Ms Harris books. They are not only good mysteries for the dentist's waiting room: they are very good novels.

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Summary: Kix is my type of PI.
Review: This was the first Christine Bennett mystery I read. It was so good I recomended it to my family. I was in my fifties then but the book was rated as superb by my daughters in their twenties and by my husband. From then on I've read all Ms Harris' books. She's fabulous. Maybe you could say they're cozies but I don't think so. She has a deep sense of plot and characterization. Kix is a real person, the men and women involved in her investigations are psychologically correct. To make things short, I love Ms Harris books. They are not only good mysteries for the dentist's waiting room: they are very good novels.

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Summary: chris bennett lives next door
Review: what can i say? this is one of my favorite books, in large part because i feel that the characters are so real that i feel that i know them - a confession: as an "ex-nun" myself, i was delighted to find one in a book that was believable - i, like chris, just knew it was time to go back to secular life - i wasn't mad at anyone, i wasn't in love with anyone, and to this day i have my "sister josephs" in my life, although i have been gone from the convent for twenty three years and happily married for twenty two of these years - also, like chris, i met the man i married very shortly after leaving, and i tried to keep things casual until i had been out awhile, but... a friend at work gave me this book thinking i'd love it and i did...and immediately went out and acquired all the others then written, and can't wait for new ones -all of the "chris" books are just plain old good reads!